The Mets dressed up the team’s rookies in various costumes after yesterday’s 4-0 win in Florida. Thanks to the power of the Internet, we can see those photos.
Here is my favorite, Bobby Parnell as some sort of German…um…woman?
Nick Evans as Minnie Mouse and Josh Thole as a Playboy bunny.
Lance Broadway as a nurse and Tobi Stoner as a French Maid.
Hilarious.
Pat Misch just threw a complete-game shut out for the New York Mets.
I repeat.
Pat Misch just threw a complete-game shut out for the New York Mets.
The Mets won 4-0, taking the series against the Florida Marlins.
Misch surrendered eight hits in the game, seven of them being singles. He also owes Jeff Francoeur a steak dinner, as the right fielder went up and over the wall to bring back a would-be home run off the bat of Chris Coghlan.
Francoeur also hit a two-run home run in the game. The Mets also got runs off a Josh Thole sac-fly and an Anderson Hernandez solo home run.
Misch tossed 101 pitches through eight innings and needed only nine more to get through the final innings. Sixty-seven of those pitches went for strikes.
Oh, and this is six days after Jerry Manuel told reporters that Misch would be pulled from the rotation. Figures.
Nice to see Thole behind the plate for this, too.
Seven left. Carlos Beltran and David Wright both take a seat today. Here’s the lineup for the rubber game against the Marlins…
-Jerry Manuel on John Maine (who hit two batsmen in a row last night)
No joke.
Here is the band of the infamous Citi Field Streaker. It’s…well…you be the judge.
The lyrics are a little NSFW, though nothing you probably haven’t heard on MTV before.
Enjoy?
-Jerry Manuel on last night’s comeback win
A late-September game against the Marlins. Back in April, we probably all thought this would be one of those games the Mets might have to win to clinch their postseason bid.
Now that those games are being played, we couldn’t have been more wrong.
Games that, for the last two years, spelled disaster for the Mets are now flipped in roles. The Marlins are trying to stay alive and the Mets, far from meaningful October baseball, are trying to play spoilers.
Last night, they pulled it off.
Down three runs heading into the top of the 8th inning, the Mets tacked on one in a bizarre play. David Wright at the plate with Brian Schneider on third. Wright swings and believes he fouled off the ball as it squirts away from Ronny Paulino.
Home plate umpire Bill Hohn calls strike three as Paulino scampers back to retrieve the ball. Heads up play by Schneider who dashes home to score while Wright and Jerry Manuel begin to argue.
It was a tough call to make. On replay, in slow motion, it was hard to tell if Wright tipped it. If he didn’t, just a flat out terrible play by Paulino.
Top 9 rolls along and the Mets are down one run. Daniel Murphy and Jeff Francoeur greeted Leo Nunez with singles to start the inning. Pinch-hitter Jeremy Reed comes to the plate and is walked on four pitches, loading the bases for pinch-hitter Cory Sullivan.
Sullivan ends up slicing a ball down the third base line, scoring two and giving the Mets the lead. The Mets went quietly through the rest of the 9th, with Wright striking out for the fourth time in the game to end the inning.
Francisco Rodriguez came in for the bottom of the ninth inning, allowed a single, but closed out the Marlins in a game of somewhat revenge for the previous two Septembers.
David Wright appeared on FOX Business channel a few days ago to talk about sports endorsements. I found it interesting, so I’ll pass it along.
-Jerry Manuel on the season ending
I’ve heard some grumblings of this from some people who will remained unnamed. Switching teams? A travesty.
I asked my Twitter followers if they would ever abandon the Mets and root for another team. I was quite pleased with the answers.
Here are some responses…
kramtelak said: Never would switch. I'm not like a lot of yankee fans who switched in the 90's from Met fans. Phony's
RyanFingAwesome said: no way, ive been a fan my whole life. it would be like disowning your kid because of a few (or a lot of) bad grades.
mikexdavis said: I hate that concept, the whole "I have an AL team and an NL team" thing. It's called "being a fan," you dopes.
jay5026 said: no I've invested too much money into ticket plans, jerseys/apparel, and oh yeah a brick at citi that says I'm a fan for life
metschick said: Nope. It's not even an option.
Ryan_J_Smith said: No way, sticking with the Mets. Gotta stay loyal, its baseball code. Plus, its that much better when they win it all
davidgolden99 said: Never. I grew up with the Mets, and I'll die a Mets fan--if they don't kill me first.
DonCheech said: Never.. My dad suffered, I suffer, and my kids will suffer.
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Would you ever switch team allegiances?